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Charles Coventry (British Army officer)
Colonel Charles John Coventry, CB (26 February 1867 in Marylebone, London, England – 2 June 1929 in Earls Croome, Worcestershire, England) was a British Army officer who played cricket for England in the first two Test matches they played against South Africa.
==Biography==
Coventry was the second son of George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry. He served in the Worcestershire Regiment but was seconded to the Bechuanaland Mounted Police Force from 1888-96..He took part in the Matabeland War of 1893 and the Jameson Raid of 1896 (for which he was briefly imprisoned). He then joined the West African Frontier Force for a short period, but at the same time was also commissioned into the Worcestershire Yeomanry. Coventry took command of the latter during the Gallipoli campaign of 1915. In April 1916 he was captured with many of the regiment at Katia, Egypt, and spent the rest of the war as a prisoner in Turkey. In 1922 he took command of the re-formed Worcestershire and Oxfordshire Yeomanry Brigade, now serving as 100 Field Brigade, Royal Artillery. He retired from the Yeomanry in 1925.
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